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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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In imitation is a bit suicide.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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